CODES: - Drone Records

track, minus the downtuned distortion; and then of course, there's
David Tibet reciting his trademarked revelations surrounding his
heretical beliefs about Christ, Satan, and the end of the world as we
know it. Where The Long Shadows Fall is an open ended piece, built
upon illusion and impression. For the elegantly mangled nursery
rhymes that Current 93 is known for, look to the second disc All The
Pretty Little Horses. Here, David Tibet conducts business mostly as a
duet with the acoustic guitar of Michael Cashmore, who has done more
to define Tibet's apocalyptic take on British folk than any other
guitarist (including Ben Chasny, Tony Wakeford, Douglas P, etc.).
These tunes are sparsely arranged with occasional flourishes of
electronic manipulation and baroque instrumentation. Along with
Cashmore, other noteworthy guest appearance include Nick Cave and
Shirley Collins.
The final disc The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home is one of the
darker recordings that Current 93 has made since Tibet abandoned the
dirge collages of tape loops and cackling voice which dominated his
very first recordings. That same vocal loop which opens Where The
Long Shadows Fall is the backbone to this atmospheric work, although
it has been shrouded in reverb and pushed into the background of
whispering drones and shadowy sounds. Tibet's voice growls with the
aid of plenty of timestretched tricks that perfectly augment Tibet's
already creepy voice.
If you didn't have the opportunity to pick these up when they
originally came out, you really should now, and spend some time with
these recordings as they have clearly aged well over the past decade
and stand amongst the best of the Current 93 recordings." [Aquarius
Records]
* CUTLER, CHRIS - There and back again. Volume 2: On Memory
CD (ReR Megacorp ReR CC3, 2007) € 14.00
"A companion to Twice around the Earth, There and Back Again uses
44 environmental recordings to explore - amongst other things - the way
memory works, and how the experience of passing time is constructed.
Mainly its just meant to be good to listen to: surprising, serendipitous,
mundane - but alien, the commonplace transfigured - an agglomeration
of inadvertent sounds made haphazardly by the world and some of its
inhabitants that were never meant to survive, and certainly not to be
listened to repeatedly. And yet - they seem to add up. I listened to this
many times and it keeps changing, though it cant. I dont understand it,
but I like it. As a whole its very different from Twice, though both share
some locations (taken at different points) making reading across the two
CDs another dimension of listening." [label info]
* DANIELL, DAVID - Coastal CD (Xeric / Table of the Elements
XER109, 2006) € 14.50
Erstes () Solo-Album des RHYS CHATHAM-Bandleaders DAVID
DANIELL, der natürlich auch Gitarrist ist, hier aber auch noch per
Analog-Synth generierte Drones, Beckenklänge, leicht Perkussives,
und field recordings geschickt verwebt, so dass fliessend-einnehmende
"experimental Drone"-Stücke entstehen, aber auch erstklassige
hypnotische Gitarrenbasierte Minimalismen. Exquisit !! 58+ minutes, 4
tracks...
"Wenn man jemals das rohe, minimale Heulen gehört hat, das von den
nächtlichen Lagerfeuern im Labelcamp von Table Of The Elements
aufsteigt, dann hat man auch von DAVID DANIELL gehört, auch wenn
man den Namen nicht zuordnen kann. DANIELL ist sowohl der
Bandleader des Ensembles von RHYS CHATHAM, als auch Gitarrist
für FEBRUARY, die Band von Jonathan Kane. Dazu kommen
regelmäßige Auftritte mit Doug McCombs von TORTOISE,
Kollaborationen mit Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore und Loren Conners
und die Arbeit mit seiner eigenen Band SAN AGUSTIN. Nach einer
langen Pause steht nun mit "Coastal" die zweite Soloplatte des
Umtriebigen ins Haus, die eine perfekte Synthese aller Einflüsse von
David Grubbs bis FAUST destilliert. Verwurzelt im Blues, dem
amerikanischen Minimalismus und den Ideologien des Punk spricht
DANIELLs Gitarre schon allein wahre Bände, während ihre Fusion mit
den elektroakustischen Kompositionen einem den Atem raubt. // Have
you heard the raw, minimal howl that rises from the late-night,
backwoods campfires at Table Of The Elements If so, you know the
work of David Daniell -- even if you don't yet recognize the name.
Daniell is the head of both of composer Rhys Chatham's current
ensembles; he's the lead guitarist in Jonathan Kane's rollicking band,
February; he performs regularly in a duo with Tortoise's Doug
McCombs; he has collaborated with the who's who of today's finest,
including Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore and Loren Connors; and his
guitar work with his own band, San Agustin, is the stuff of which fleeting
blues-drone dreams are made. Following a long break after his debut
solo release, Daniell now returns with Coastal. In all its variety, this
record is a focused synthesis of influences. Tracks like 'Sunfish' and
'Glasswort' use acoustic guitar reminiscent of work by David Grubbs
and Mountains, while the thick psychedelic morass of deep electric
guitar, synth drone and scattered tribal percussion of 'Whelk' brings to
mind early Faust, and the long-form tone poem 'Palmetto' is pure
swirling electronic glacial beauty. Rooted in the blues, American
minimalism and post-punk ideologies, Daniell's guitar playing is always
inspired; when fused with his intricate electroacoustic compositions, the
results are breathtaking." [press release]
* DAUBY, YANNICK - Fevrier CD (Cherry Music cherry-002,
2006) € 12.00
Lots of wind & weather & environmental sounds on this new album by
one of the best field-recording experimentalists...
"....Following the outstanding 'In drawing' cd, Cherry have added
another fine release to this small, select area. Having said that, I
confess that I struggled with the intense, almost brutal deluge that
emerges from the thunder storm of the first (18 minutes) track on
'Fevrier'. The ferocity of sound seems designed to remind us of our
inability to escape the power of nature. So, I suppose, Yannick has
indeed succeeded in capturing the sound with its power intact. The 5
tracks on this cd are all based around field recordings some are obvious
and some are more to do with the search for hidden sounds in our
environment. Yannick is one of the few who can also apply various
technical processes in order to 'compose' pieces from his recordings
without the results sounding like electro-acoustic -phonographic
garbage.The combination of his respectful skills when using natural
sound and Cherry music's high level approach to the quality of their
releases makes 'Fevrier' a fine addition to it's catalogue." [Jez Riley]
* DELPLANQUE, MATHIAS - Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas CD
(Mondes Ellipitues E.Q.05.02., 2006) [lim. 500] € 13.50
Studio-Version einer Klanginstallation des kanadischen Klangkünstlers
MATHIAS DELPLANQUE, der die "Stille eines Raumes" als
ursprüngliche Klangquelle benutzt hat. Durch extensive Bearbeitung
entstand ein sehr ansprechendes Stück Drone-Geräuschmusik, sehr
pulsierend, zeitlupen-artig, mit vielen hohen Microsound-Frequenzen...
"This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montréal’s Studio
Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the ‘’Ma chambre quand je n’y
suis pas’’ series. The piece is based on the recording of “silences”, i.e. the
recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an
“empty” Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of
this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by
means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist.
The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to
the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel
mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces
(“Hall”, “Living room”, “Bedroom”, “Lab”). This installation closed Mathias
Delplanque’s Montréal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004,
as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association française
d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres
du Québec (CALQ) and the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ).
The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine
drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence,
‘’speak’’ and ‘’non-speak’’…One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened
with various underlying currents. A sheer delight. Mathias Delplanque is known,
among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass
label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and
Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES
ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.)." [label info]
"...Delplanque was artist in residence in the Studio Cormier, which is an
art gallery (I believe). Here he recorded the silences of the four different
spaces during the most silent periods of the day and then treated the
recordings, the frequencies of silence into a powerful forty-five minute
piece of music. Silence does not exist (as John Cage already found
out), so why not treat the silence as music. Not exactly a new idea of
course, but Delplanque does a great job. It hisses, makes rhythm via
low bass hum, and throughout these forty five minutes, there is a lot of
variation in sound going on. The sound of emptiness and silence as
ambient music. It's by no means a soft work: throughout it's highly
audible and sounds like buzzing insects and has creepy undertone. A
great work." [FdW / Vital Weekly]
* DESIDERII MARGINIS - The ever green Tree CD (Kaosthetik
Konspiration KSTK005, 2007) € 13.00
Neo-klassisch geprägter Dark Ambient der Sonderklasse, aber eher
von der melancholisch-ruhigen Sorte; getragene Arrangements, die
durch Neofolk & Noise-Element kontrastiert werden, mitunter fast
Filmmusik-Atmosphäre.. 6 tracks, 39 Minuten.
"In the pure vein of his previous realization, Dark ambiant industrial with
very personal feelings and innovations. "the ever green tree" is a
concept album based on eternal youth, eternal values, fame and
immortality. 'The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by
tragedy.' - A.N.Whitehead (1861 - 1947) Comes in a textured digifile,
first eddition limited to 1000 copies." [label info]
* DESIDERII MARGINIS - Seven Sorrows CD (Cold Meat Industry
cmi173, 2007) € 15.00
""....Der hohe Wiedererkennungswert von Desiderii Marginis hat auch
Bestand auf dem sechsten Album "Seven Sorrows", aber die geneigte